Tag: Arianespace
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Live coverage: Soyuz rocket lifts off with four O3b broadband satellites
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana with four O3b commercial broadband communications satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. Arianespace’s live video stream begins at 1622 GMT (11:22 a.m. EST). If you appreciate what we do, please consider becoming a Spaceflight Now member and…
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Video: Replay of Soyuz takeoff with four O3b broadband satellites
Video credit: Arianespace A Russian Soyuz rocket lifted off Friday from French Guiana with four broadband satellites for the O3b network, which provides high-speed connectivity to developing countries, ships and other customers who lack a reliable Internet link. The Soyuz-2.1b booster launched at 1710:06 GMT (12:10:06 p.m. EST; 2:10:06 p.m. French Guiana time) from…
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Four O3b satellites launched to beam Internet to developing world
A Soyuz rocket lifts off Friday from the Guiana Space Center with four O3b broadband satellites. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – S. Martin Four satellites set to join O3b’s expanding broadband network successfully launched Friday on top of a Russian-built Soyuz booster from French Guiana, joining 12 other craft linking developing…
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Arianespace Soyuz ST-B launches latest O3b satellites
The Arianespace Soyuz ST-B rocket launched the next set of four O3b communication satellites into orbit on Friday. The spacecraft are heading to a constellation that is already populated by 12 of the birds controlled by O3b Networks. Lift off from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana was slightly delayed due to upper level winds, before…
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Soyuz launch from French Guiana delayed to Friday
The Soyuz rocket set to launch with four new O3b broadband satellites rolled out to its launch pad in French Guiana on March 2. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – P. Baudon The blastoff of four broadband Internet satellites aboard a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana has been pushed back to Friday,…
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Investigators say erroneous navigation input led Ariane 5 rocket off course
An Ariane 5 rocket lifts off from French Guiana on Jan. 25 with the SES 14 and Al Yah 3 communications satellites. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – JM Guillon A bad input to the Ariane 5 rocket’s guidance system that was missed during pre-launch quality control checks caused the launcher to…
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NASA gears up for brisk launch pace, starting with weather satellite
The first stage of the Atlas 5 rocket set to launch NOAA’s GOES-S weather satellite was lifted atop its mobile launch platform Jan. 31 inside the Vertical Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad. Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky Engineers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center tasked with overseeing launches of scientific satellites and interplanetary probes…
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Photos: European Ariane 5 rocket climbs into space from French Guiana
An Ariane 5 rocket soared into orbit from French Guiana on Jan. 25 with the commercial SES 14 and Al Yah 3 communications satellite, but the launcher missed its mark and released the telecom craft into an unplanned orbit. Officials from SES and Yahsat, the companies which own the two payloads, said their satellites will…
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Video: Ariane 5 makes a smooth blastoff before mission runs into trouble
A 180-foot-tall (55-meter) Ariane 5 rocket climbed into space from French Guiana on Thursday evening, but the mission ran into problems a few minutes later. The launch was supposed to deliver the SES 14 and Al Yah 3 communications satellites into a supersynchronous transfer orbit arcing as high as 28,000 miles (45,000 kilometers) above Earth.…
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Ariane 5 deploys two telecom satellites in orbit despite telemetry loss
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 1300 GMT (8 a.m. EST) Jan. 26 with SES statement. An Ariane 5 rocket lifts off Thursday from French Guiana. Credit: Arianespace KOUROU, French Guiana — A European Ariane 5 rocket took off from French Guiana and delivered two commercial communications satellites and a NASA scientific package to orbit Thursday after…